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This year’s Fourth of July fireworks show on the National Mall is the first such event to be designated a “National Special ...

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A scorching heat wave in Europe, a bonfire celebration in Argentina, a Pride parade in Seattle, semiquincentennial ...

In a new YouGov poll, 55 percent of American citizens said the country is less patriotic than it used to be, and roughly 35 ...

The president celebrates only some Americans. But patriotism is not about who is in the Oval Office.